About

Chethan Prakash is a highly skilled Technical Architect with over 14 years of experience building scalable and maintainable systems in some of the best tech companies and startups. Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon, Chethan has previously worked at Navi, Yahoo, and Thoughtworks. At Navi, Chethan served as the Principal Architect and was responsible for architecting and implementing major portions of the lending platform from the ground up. He also built the complete underwriting platform to assess the creditworthiness or risk of a potential borrower and provide offers for personal and home loans digitally using rule engine and ML models. Chethan managed and led teams to build core platforms such as data pipeline, fraud engine, and ML models. He designed and implemented a highly scalable system based on CQRS and Event sourcing and built core frameworks for Kafka communications, distributed locking, auditing, and rule engine. Chethan also worked as a Software Engineer IV at Yahoo, where he architected a multi-tenant storm-based workflow engine for reviewing ads from multiple platforms on a very large scale. He also designed and implemented a near-real-time pipeline for aggregating data across multiple systems using Kafka, Storm, and ElasticSearch. Chethan worked as a SME in the field of malvertising (malware via ads) and its detection. Chethan's technical specialties include Distributed Systems, Data pipelines, Microservices, and Web Security. He is also proficient in Software Engineering, ML, Kafka, Web, and Elastic Search. Chethan has a degree in BE from the National Institute of Engineering and a P U degree in Physics, Chemistry, Maths, and Electronics from D V S(I). Chethan has an impressive relevant experience of 15.70 years and has led high-performance engineering teams. He has conducted coding bootcamps for experienced engineers for companies like Thoughtworks, Swiggy, etc. Chethan is a valuable asset to any organization looking for a skilled Technical Architect to lead their engineering teams.